minus-square@Eiimlink17•4 months agoOn the other hand, spontaneous generation was very much still a thing at this point, so a lot of the basic rules of the world around us were really not worked out yet
minus-square@EmoDuck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink10•4 months ago it was not discredited until the work of the French chemist Louis Pasteur and the Irish physicist John Tyndall in the mid-19th century. There was a post on lemmy the other day about things that get their names from real people. I forgot that “pasteurize” was also one
minus-square@nonfuinoncuro@lemm.eelinkfedilink4•4 months agogerrymander is always a weird one, I dunno if flanderization counts but I’ll just leave it here
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On the other hand, spontaneous generation was very much still a thing at this point, so a lot of the basic rules of the world around us were really not worked out yet
There was a post on lemmy the other day about things that get their names from real people. I forgot that “pasteurize” was also one
gerrymander is always a weird one, I dunno if flanderization counts but I’ll just leave it here
Defini-diddilly does, Lemmarino!